When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics is not an exact science.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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